211 to 220 of 415 Results
Daniel Butler, 2011, "Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/FZYR0R, Yale Dataverse, V2
How do legislators get bureaucrats to implement the laws they pass? McCubbins and Schwartz (1984) suggest that 'fire alarms' (i.e. where the legislators rely on citizens and organized interest groups to let them know about instances of bureaucratic non-compliance), provide a cost-effective way to achieve this compliance. This paper reports on the r... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Hongbin Cai; Yuyu Chen; Hanming Fang, 2017, "Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/BKQJFA, Yale Dataverse, V2
We report results from a randomized natural field experiment conducted in a restaurant dining setting to distinguish the observational learning effect from the saliency effect. We find that, when customers are given ranking information of the five most popular dishes, the demand for those dishes increases by 13 to 20 percent. We do not find a signi... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Sendhil Mullainathan; Ebonya Washington; Julia Azari, 2011, "The Impact of Electoral Debate on Public Opinions: An Experimental Investigation of the 2005 New York City Mayoral Election", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VMTXYK, Yale Dataverse, V2
Political debates have long been a part of the American polity. The early practice was aimed primarily at promoting parliamentary and elite deliberation, as well as informing the broader public about issues and candidates (Jamieson and Birdsell 1988: 37). Televised debates have altered this dynamic, structuring debate as a practice to educate the e... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Matthew Hall, 2011, "Experimental Justice: Random Judicial Assignment and the Partisan Process of Supreme Court Review", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/GIRRHN, Yale Dataverse, V2
This study utilizes the random assignment of judges to panels in the U.S. courts of appeals to measure how the partisanship of these judges affects whether or not the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case and subsequently overturns the decision of the lower panel. Results from the study provide evidence of partisan behavior in the Supreme Court revie... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alan S. Gerber; Donald P. Green, 2011, "Correction to Gerber and Green (2000), Replication of Disputed Findings, and Reply to Imai (2005)", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ODL44F, Yale Dataverse, V2
This essay corrects the results reported in Gerber and Green 2000 and replies to Imai (2005). When data-processing errors are repaired, the original substantive findings from the New Haven experiment remain unchanged. As previously reported, brief phone calls do not increase voter turnout. The “correction” that Imai (2005) offers, which purports to... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Susan D. Hyde, 2011, "The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/KJE1VX, Yale Dataverse, V2
By pressuring governments to hold democratic elections and by becoming directly involved in the electoral process through technical assistance and funding or as election monitors, international actors now play a visible role in domestic elections and other democratic processes throughout the developing world. Although scholars have documented sever... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daron R. Shaw; Donald P. Green; James G. Gimpel; Alan S. Gerber, 2010, "Do Robotic Calls from Credible Sources Influence Voter Turnout or Vote Choice? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ILUXSC, Yale Dataverse, V2
The effectiveness of prerecorded phone calls was assessed in the context of a Texas Republican primary election that featured a contest for state Supreme Court. Automated calls endorsing one of the judicial candidates were recorded by the sitting Republican governor and directed at more than a quarter million people identified as likely voters and... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Gregory Huber; John S. Lapinski, 2011, "Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/UEYQIK, Yale Dataverse, V2
The Implicit-Explicit (IE) model of racial priming posits that implicitly racial messages will be more effective than explicitly racial ones in priming racial predispositions in opinion formation. Is the Implicit-Explicit model supported by existing data? In “Racial Priming Revived,” Mendelberg responds to our analysis of a pair of experiments in w... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Costas Panagopoulos; Donald P. Green, 2011, "Field Experiments Testing the Impact of Radio Advertisements on Electoral Competition", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/NTMEZU, Yale Dataverse, V2
Results from previous studies of campaign spending imply that equal-sized grants to both incumbents and challengers are a net benefit to challengers, who on average spend less money and derive greater marginal returns from each additional dollar. This study provides an experimental test of this proposition. Cities holding mayoral elections in Novem... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Costas Panagopoulos, 2011, "Timing Is Everything? Primacy and Recency Effects in Voter Mobilization Campaigns", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/STKD55, Yale Dataverse, V2
The timing of message delivery in political campaigns is a key component of strategy. Yet studies that examine the impact of message timing on political behavior are surprisingly rare. Although one recent study finds that appeals delivered closer to Election Day will be most effective (Nickerson, American Journal of Political Science 51(2):269–282,... |
